The alleged plot to overthrow the administration of President Bola Tinubu imputed to Peter Obi and other leaders of Nenadi Usman-led Labour Party has drawn reaction.
The Julius Abure-led faction of the Labour Party had on Tuesday petitioned the Department of State Security Services, alleging that Obi, the Nigeria Labour Congress President, Joe Ajaero, Senator Victor Umeh and other leaders of the Nenadi Usman-led faction were planning to stage a “coup” through a nationwide “One-Million Man March.”
It claimed further that those accused of the plot plans were to overthrow Tinubu’s government and use force to reclaim the party’s former national secretariat in Utako, Abuja, currently occupied by the Julius Abure-led group.
This has now drawn reaction from the faction of the former Minister of Finance, Usman.
The reaction, a rebuttal, was made by her Senior Special Adviser on Media, Ken Asogwa.
Asogwa dismissed the allegation as a “malicious and desperate frame-up” aimed at blackmailing and destabilising the opposition.
“Let it be stated unequivocally that the leadership of LP is not aware of any planned protest anywhere in Nigeria under the auspices of the party.
“We have neither authorised nor sanctioned any individual or group to march on the streets in the name of reclaiming a property the party has long abandoned,” the statement read.
Continued: “What is, however, more alarming is the fictitious and irresponsible allegation of a planned coup d’état against the Tinubu administration, a claim suspiciously lumped with this so-called ‘One Million Man March’.
“How an alleged protest to reclaim a party office translates to a violent toppling of a sitting government beats the imagination of any right-thinking Nigerian.
“This is not merely a reckless lie, it is a dangerous and desperate attempt to frame up respected leaders of the Labour Party in a phoney plot to destabilise the nation.”
